500 Dreams: A Bedtime Seek-and-Find

by Jennifer Eckford, Natalia Rojas Castro (Illustrator)

Overview

This beautifully illustrated, ultimate search-and-find book has 500 different dreams to encourage happy thoughts as kids drift off to sleep

What if you could choose your dream? Which one would you choose? Would you fly with a dragon? Make friends with a mermaid? Or perhaps you’d speed through space on a rocket?

Kids will enjoy settling down for bed with 500 Dreams and exploring different dream scenes. Items hidden within each scene add to the fun with a total of 500 things to find throughout the book and the corresponding answers appearing in the back. Make bedtime an adventure every night with this fun search-and-find book that encourages sweet dreams! It makes a great gift.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798887075600
Publisher:	Magic Cat
Publication date:	08/19/2025
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	64
File size:	113 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

Jennifer Eckford is a writer whose books have been published in more than 30 languages around the world. She studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art in London before becoming an award-winning writer, editor, and publisher of children’s books. She lives on the North Norfolk coast in the United Kingdom with her young family. Natalia Roja Castro is an illustrator based in Bogotá, Colombia. The inspiration for her work comes from her surroundings, the streets of Bogotá, and the colors and nature of Colombia and Latin America. When she is not drawing, she enjoys riding her bike and making rugs with her designs for fun.

Editorial Reviews

"Eckford’s bouncy, well-crafted rhymes appear beneath Rojas Castro’s busy, vividly colored digital illustrations...A dream of a bedtime romp. But who’ll want to sleep when they’re having this much fun?"

Kirkus Review

2025-05-03
Which dream will you choose?

Seek and ye shall find! That’s the imaginative premise of this engaging guide to helping kids select dreams—500 in all!—to carry them off to a peaceful slumber. On each spread, readers are invited to locate items and characters involved in various activities—all of them opportunities for pleasant dreams. In Candyland, readers can “meet sugarplum fairies, their wings all aquiver,” “tunnel inside the deep Ice Crystal Cave,” and “dive in a puddle of pink bubble tea.” In outer space, they can “chat with a Martian,” “race UFOs,” and “whoosh on a comet.” This rollicking U.K. import features 23 other amazing dreamlands. Eckford’s bouncy, well-crafted rhymes appear beneath Castro’s busy, vividly colored digital illustrations, populated by a bevy of energetic, racially diverse young kids. An answer key proves a welcome tool, as some details may be challenging to discern; several topics may be out of many children’s realm of experience—mythological characters, for instance. Happily, the work offers great opportunities for learning and vocabulary development. Children will get the most out of the book if they browse through it first, choose a few favorite dreamlands, and then pick several dreams within those realms. Indeed, it would take more than a year to experience all 500 suggestions if they were each to be “dreamed” consecutively night after night!

A dream of a bedtime romp. But who’ll want to sleep when they’re having this much fun?(Activity book. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews